Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Sonatas Nos. 14, 17 & 18; Fantasia – Glenn Gould (1975/2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Sonatas Nos. 14, 17 & 18; Fantasia – Glenn Gould (1975/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 00:58:10 minutes | 533 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: Q0buz | @ Columbia Records/Sony Music Entertainment

Glenn Gould could not have timed his professional entrance to the recording studio any better than with his première recording in 1955. Five years had passed since the lacquer disc medium had been retired and the industry had fully embraced tape recording.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Sonatas Nos. 11, 15 & 16, Fantasia – Glenn Gould (1973/2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Sonatas Nos. 11, 15 & 16, Fantasia – Glenn Gould (1973/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 00:47:33 minutes | 432 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: Q0buz | @ Columbia

No Gould recording received a more solid thrashing than his reading of the A-major Sonata, K. 331: “The most loathsome record ever made!”—“It all conjures up an image of a tremendously precocious but very nasty little boy trying to put one over on his piano teacher.”—“It is very difficult to see what Gould is out to prove, unless the rumor that he actually hates this music is true.”

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Sonatas Nos. 8, 10, 12 & 13 – Glenn Gould (1972/2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Sonatas Nos. 8, 10, 12 & 13 – Glenn Gould (1972/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 00:49:47 minutes | 481 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: Q0buz | @ Columbia Records/Sony Music Entertainment

“The Sonata [No. 12] K. 332 was the first I began to study, I think, and I simply couldn’t understand how my teachers, and other presumably sane adults of my acquaintance, could count this piece among the great musical treasures of Western man.”

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Sonatas Nos. 6, 7 & 9 – Glenn Gould (1969/2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Sonatas Nos. 6, 7 & 9 – Glenn Gould (1969/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 00:49:39 minutes | 463 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: Q0buz | @ Columbia

“Even though ‘shorter is better’ represents my attitude in regard to Mozart generally, I’d have to say that the sonata in D, K. 284, which is probably the longest of the sonatas, is my favorite.” The critics were on the whole benevolent and at most poked fun at some of Gould’s ultra-fast tempos.

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